My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor...
My dad like many Southern men is this very emotionally expressive person...
My dad doesn't like religion much but I grew up very close to the Baptist...
It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts ' I...
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids like my mom and my sister do.
